Sunday, 30 December 2012

One
of the most common phrases that we were able to read or listen in TV,
since 2007 is “I have absolutely no doubt!. Hundreds of
“witnesses” were absolutely sure that a good number of blonde
girls were Madeleine Mccann. But all of them just look at the girl
and did nothing, like shouting, confronting the adults that were with
the children or following them and calling the police, at the same
time.

May be they had no mobile phone, like all the Tapas Seven, when
they went out for dinner, the night Madeleine disappear. Ray Roberts, from Anglesey, North Wales, was on holidays in Malta. He saw
Madeleine Mccann. According to the MailOnline, he saw a girl in the
north-eastern town of Sliema wearing what he said was a jet black
wig being told: "Get up little girl," by an Arab-looking
man. "The more I think about what I saw the more convinced I
become that it may well have been Madeleine," he said.

But
that is what he said to the newspaper. Police in Malta denied that
Mr. Ray Roberts has filed any report or even contacted authorities.
But Ray Roberts wasn't alone. In a couple of days, police had to
deal with a total of 12 sightings of blonde girls that were –
according with the “witnesses” - Madeleine Mccann. Of course,
none of those sightings were confirmed.

The Foreign Office was alerted to fears over Gerry and Kate McCann by a British diplomat in Portugal just days after their daughter Madeleine went missing. The diplomat was sent to the holiday resort of Praia da Luz in the days following the four-year-old's disappearance and soon became concerned over "inconsistencies" in the testimonies by her parents and their friends.

After visiting the McCanns, the unnamed diplomat sent a report to the Foreign Office in London, admitting his worries about "confused declarations" of the McCanns' movements on the night of May 3.

He also noted the couple's "lack of co-operation" with the Portuguese police.

The diplomat's concerns were made over four months before Gerry and Kate were named arguidos (suspects) on September 7.

Contents of the letter were leaked to Belgian newspaper La Dernière Heure over the weekend.

The diplomat expressed his fears after receiving instruction from the Foreign Office to provide "all possible assistance to the McCann couple".

The French-language paper printed excerpts of the letter, quoting the diplomat as saying: "With the greatest respect, I would like to make you aware of the risks and implications to our relationship with the Portuguese authorities, if you consider the possible involvement of the couple.

"Please confirm to me, in the light of these concerns, that we want to continue to be closely involved in the case as was requested in your previous ­message."

Sunday, 23 December 2012

'Mr
Woolfall says that he heard no suggestion in the early days that the
girl had been snatched. 'Certainly I did not hear any discussion
that this could be a paedophile or an aggravated robbery. All the
time I was around it was whether she could have wandered off and had
an accident or somebody had actually taken her in, perhaps not with
ill-intent.During
the first 48 hours the word being used was 'missing' rather than
'abducted' or any link with a paedophile or any sort of crime.
Towards the end of the second week I detected a shift towards there
being a consciousness that she had probably been taken rather than
wandered off, just on the assumption that anybody would have found
her by now."'

Times
interview, 06 October 2007

John
Hill, manager of Ocean Resort, said "there was no physical evidence that the girl had been abducted
from the family's rented apartment while they ate at the tapas
restaurant 200 yards away. It's still questionable as to
whether it's an abduction," he said. "We are hoping that
Madeleine is found as soon as possible and safe and well." But
Jill Renwick, a family friend, told GMTV that the parents were
certain that Madeleine has been abducted.Algarve Resident 11 Setembro 2007

Kate Mccann: The night she went missing there was about 20 seconds of disbelief where I thought 'that can't be right'. I was checking for her. Then there was panic and fear. That was the first thing that hit. I was screaming her name. I ran to the group. Everyone was the same. It was just total fear. I never thought for one second that she'd walked out. I knew someone had been in the apartment because of the way it had been left. But I knew she wouldn't do that anyway. There wasn't a shadow of a doubt in my mind she'd been taken.

Sunday, 16 December 2012

I'm back, but slowly, after a health problem. Still working in the book "The Mccann War". I have found some interesting things, in my research.

"GNR Officer J.M.B.R. found the parents to be nervous and anxious, he did not see any tears from either of them although they produced noises identical to crying. He did not feel that this was an abduction, although this was the line indicated by the father."

THE spokesman for the family of Madeleine McCann has reversed a statement made in the early days of the search for the missing child (...) However, in the early part of the hunt, friends and family members told journalists that the shutter on the apartment where the McCanns were staying had been broken.

Mr Mitchell made his comments when questioned by a 'Prime Time' team in a report on the disappearance to be screened tomorrow. "There was no evidence of a break-in," said Mr Mitchell.

"I'm not going into the detail, but I can say that Kate and Gerry are firmly of the view that somebody got into the apartment and took Madeleine out the window as their means of escape, and to do that they did not necessarily have to tamper with anything. They got out of the window fairly easily.

"Mitchell said he was not surprised by the inconsistencies in the initial accounts. 'You had nine people in a bar without watches on, without mobile phones, and absolute panic set in when they realised what had happened.

The Guardian 06 April 2008

"It was made out to be the biggest 'conspiracy' since the Diana 'conspiracy,'" says Mitchell. "Some of the group (of friends in the tapas restaurant) had their watches on that night, and others didn't...

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

I had a health problem that kept me away for almost one month. I'm back home, now. But it will take some time until I'm able to work as usual. The book "The Mccann War" will be the main "victim" of this health problem. I can not have it ready on December. And now, I can not set a new dead-line, yet. The only thing I can do is wait and see if, little by little, I can be back as soon as possible...

Saturday, 28 July 2012

Mr
Paul Rees, Editor
of algarvedailynews.com told me that the story about a scheme to
find missing children in Portugal was just a Press Release, sent by a
company, not a story wrote by any journalist from his news site.

Monday, 23 July 2012

“A
rapid response system has been launched this week, designed to trace
children who get lost or go missing in Portugal. Based on Android
smartphone and Apple iPhone technology, the scheme has been rolled
out in Portugal with a view to expanding it throughout Europe and
beyond (…) There are more than one and three-quarter million
children aged 14 or under in Portugal. The number soars when visitors
arrive on holiday. Even
though Portugal is generally a safe country for children, thousands
go missing each year. The great majority are found but a significant
number are not. Unfortunately, the figures are vague and
incomplete.”

To
find the parents of “lost” foreign children is a task Portuguese
Police is used to perform daily (dozens of times...) in Algarve,
during the summer. A “holiday state of mind”, crowded beaches and
restaurants, cheap beer, a relaxing mood (Algarve is a safe place,
Portuguese people friendly) are the main reasons for this phenomenon. Few
of those cases make headlines in newspapers. Children and parents are
reunited quickly, not only because Portuguese Police in Algarve has
experience and specific procedures for theses kind of cases, but also
because Portuguese people acts immediately, whenever the see a child
that seems to be lost or looking for her parents. Most “lost”
children in Algarve (many times because their parents just had a couple more of
beers that they should, got "distracted" and did not pay enough attention to the whereabouts of
their children.....) are from British nationality.

“PJ
investigates an average of two disappearances of children every day,
mostly teenagers running away from home. Every year an average of 750
disappearances are reported, most of them teenager girls, between 14
and 17 years. The cases usually are solved in around five days.” -
in “Diário
de Notícias”, may 21 2008

The
story published by algarvedailynews.com
is a piece of shit, concerning facts about missing children in
Portugal. Since 1994 there are 8 MISSING CHILDREN CASES STILL OPEN.
Algarvedailynews.com is lying, when they write that “(...) in
Portugal (..) thousands [of children] go missing each year” - only
an average of 750 CASES OF MISSING UNDERAGED PERSONS ARE REPORTED TO
PJ, every year. The algarvedaily.news is lying again, when they write
that “a significant number [of those missing children] are not
[found]. For the last 18 YEARS, 8 CHILDREN missing in Portugal
(including Madeleine McCann) have not been found. All the others were
found.

Lord
John Stevens, former Metropolitan Police chief,
wrote on October 2007 that “the entire apartment and its environs should have been
totally sealed off and barred to anyone but specially-trained police
and forensic scientists who would have checked every millimetre of it
for evidence. It wasn’t. Police don’t call the time after a
crime, particularly one against children, the Golden Hour for
nothing. In fact, I always insist it’s a Golden Day — the time
when forensic evidence is most fresh and easy to detect, when
memories are most sharp, when lies and alibis are most vulnerable.”

Lord
John Stevens, former Metropolitan Police chief,ignored
that police was called only 50 minutes after Kate McCann found that
Maddie disappeared? And during those 50 minutes, all the McCann
friends, staff members and the manager of Ocean Resort, more than a
dozen of other guests, went inside the apartment, several times,
trying to find what happened and offering help to search for
Madeleine? Just a detail: Police arrived 12/15 minutes after the call
was received – it's the time they needed to drive from the GNR
police station, near Portimão, to Praia da Luz.

Lord
John Stevens, former Metropolitan Police chief,
wrote: “And the possible murder scene was treated as a glorified
meeting-room to organise a search for a missing child, instead of the
potential treasure trove of clues it actually was. To any experienced
British detective, it is incomprehensible.”

Indeed
it was, Lord John Steven. But police wasn't there yet, and those who
treated a “possible murder scene (...) as a glorified meeting-room
to organise a search for a missing child” were the parents of
Madeleine McCann and the so-called Tapa's Seven.

When
the GNR arrived, 12/15 minutes after a call was made (and recorded,
just like in any UK police station) the crime scene was totally
spoiled. So, Lord John Steven, why do you blame Portuguese police?
You didn't know these details, when you made these comments? Do you
have the habit of making comments about any crime case, without the
most basic knowledge of fundamental details? It does not seem to me a
very professional attitude, coming from a former Metropolitan
Police chief...

Lord
John Stevens, former Metropolitan Police chief, wrote that he was
“bewildered by reports leaked by the Portuguese police that tiny
traces [of human fluids of a dead body] have been found in the
vehicle (…) None of the so-called forensic finds being boasted of
in Portugal sound either likely,
admissible or even possible to me.” But, Lord Steven, you knew,
when you made those comments, that it was a British forensic team
that searched and found those tiny traces? That those
samples were analysed at the Forensic Science Service (FSS), in UK?
So, Lord John Steven, why do you blame Portuguese police?

Lord
John Stevens, former Metropolitan Police chief,
wrote that “Evidence from cadaver dogs, for instance, could not be
used to bring about a conviction here [in UK]. Generally they are
regarded as being at best 80 per cent reliable. 80 per cent? Not bad,
Lord Stevens...

As
The Sun wrote, on August 3rd
2007, Keela “sense of smell is so keen she can sniff out blood on
clothes after they have been washed repeatedly in biological powder.
She can pick out microscopic amounts of blood even on weapons that
have been scrubbed clean. And she is able to lead detectives to
minuscule pieces of other evidence.”

“Keela
could be described as ‘top dog’ in her field of expertise. The
trained Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) dog has skills like no other
and it has left forces worldwide hankering after an insight into her
special training”, according to South Yorkshire police. May be this
was the reasons why Gerry
and Kate McCann asked for the use of those sniffer dogs to seek fresh
clues in the search for Madeleine.

Another
UK newspaper, The Sun (what a coincidence...) on September 5th 2008
went further: The Sun: 'It's
crazy to rely on animals' “EXPERTS say sniffer dogs can play a
vital role in fighting crime - but warn it is "madness" to
rely on their findings. The animals are used to lead police to
evidence, but do not provide evidence themselves. One expert told The
Sun: "The dogs can identify traces of blood, but it's crazy to
draw major conclusions just from what they find. "Any evidence
they find should be used as a starting point. It's madness just to
rely on the findings of the sniffer dogs."

So,
Lord John Stevens, former Metropolitan Police chief, five years ago
you wrote something that it's either a monumental show of ignorance
or a shameless manipulation of information.
I wonder if you still have the same opinion...

As
far as I know, neither the Portuguese Public Prosecutor’s Office of
PJ received any formal contact from Mr. Stephen Birch, with evidence
of his discovery.

As
it happens in any country ruled by Law, in Portugal only the
Portuguese Public Prosecutor’s Office and "Polícia
Judiciária" have legal power to take specific actions about a
crime investigation. But they only can do that after they receive (or
find) evidence about a crime...

There is no legal system in any country of the world where
a citizen must prove that he is innocent, just because other citizen accuses
him of something. First, the proper authorities must collect enough (and solid)
evidence to accuse him, than take him to court and give him the right to
challenge the evidence.

Saturday, 7 July 2012

On 2007 I got a tip from a British journalist (one of the few
journalists from UK
that had and still has a good relationship with me). It was a quite interesting
tip: people connected with people connected with people related with the McCann Team got in touch
with a few PJ inspectors, asking them if they were interested in helping as “informal
consultants” in the search for Madeleine. Something quite normal, I believe.
But sometimes I’m a little bit naïf…

Two weeks after that, a top ranking PJ inspector (not part of the team investigating Maddie Case) told me
about a rather strange episode: a PJ inspector got in touch with some his colleagues
working in the investigation in Algarve and asked a few specific questions
about the case.

His colleagues were not exactly comfortable, because PJ
inspectors have a very important and quite clear rule about that kind of
questions. Breaking
it is a crime, according to the Portuguese Penal Code: if a PJ inspector
talks about or reveals anything about an ongoing investigation to somebody that is not part of the police
and Public Prosecutor’s Office team in charge of it, they violate the “segredo
de Justiça” (“Secrecy of Justice”). PJ inspectors never ask a colleague questions
about an open investigation, if they are not part of the team (if they are, they
can ask any question…)

For a couple of months, I tried to find something more
about that, but never got any further detail, not even a single clue about who
could be that PJ inspector. I decided to file it in my notes and keep it open
for the future. Than, I remembered two of my preferred books from John le Carré:
“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” and “The Honourable Schoolboy”. In this last book, some of the
most interesting action happens in Hong Kong, includingthe
Foreign Correspondents Club, a place that I know.

As a journalist, I’m not searching for any personal
nemesis and I am not hunting anybody equivalent to Karla (and, of course I’m not
John le Carré…) But I will keep my eyes open to any detail that can help me
find “Geraldo”.

AN
INVESTIGATOR has told cops Madeleine McCann was taken to the US - and he has named two key
suspects.

Marcelino Italiano, 36, said she
had been snatched by an Algarve-based paedophile ring. The amateur sleuth
added: “They can get away with anything.” Maddie vanished in Portugal in May 2007.”

“(…) The 6ft 4in nightclub
bouncer said: “I know
these people were involved and I have been told that Madeleine may now be in America.
(…) Italiano,
36, said the ring was based in Faro
and Albufeira, but had high-level
contacts in Portugal’s judiciary and links to a legal practice in London
(…) Italiano
has handed a dossier of information he uncovered to police in Huelva, south
west Spain (…) it includes the names of two prominent
Portuguese businessmen and provided photographs of them at a birthday party
in the Algarve.”

“Officers have passed the information to Portuguese cops while
private investigators hired by the Find Madeleine Fund — set up by her parents
Kate and Gerry — are also looking into the dramatic claims. (…) Last night a lawyer acting on behalf of
Italiano told The Sun her client had a “credible and believable story”. She
added: “He told the police he believed Maddie was taken by the gang and he
believes she may now be in the US.”

A spokesman for Kate and
Gerry, of Rothley, Leics, said:
“We are grateful for the information. “As with any information of this nature
the man concerned has done the right thing by informing the Spanish
authorities. Clearly it will be a matter for them and the private
investigators currently searching for Madeleine to investigate further.

”Maddie was about to turn four when she disappeared from her
family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007. Bungling Portuguese police named her parents as suspects before
clearing them. In 2008 detectives looked into suggestions that Maddie may
have been taken “to order” by a child smuggling ring based in Belgium.

Scotland Yard intelligence
officer John Shord sent Leicestershire police an email
reporting: “Somebody connected to this
group saw Maddie, took a photograph of her and sent it to Belgium. The purchaser agreed that the girl was suitable and Maddie was taken.”
(…)

Sightings have been reported across Europe and North
Africa and as far away as Canada, Tasmania
and Dubai.”

Mr. Daniel Krugel, a
South African citizen who played a interesting role in a case that reached
mediatic global proportions - the Madeleine McCann disappearance from a
touristic resort in Algarve, Portugal - has been introducing himself to dozens
of British, American, Spanish and Portuguese newspapers as a "former
police superintendent and current Director of Health and Safety at
the Central University of Technology, Free State .

The sniffer dogs said to have picked up the
scent of a corpse on Mrs McCann were only brought in after the couple gave the
go ahead for retired South African police officer Daniel Krugel - dubbed the
Locator - to conduct a search. He uses a
secret scientific method to find murder victims by following their DNA trail
with the help of global positioning satellites.

Monday, 11 June 2012

"When
asked if on any occasion Madeleine was injured, he (Gerry
Mccann) says that he has no comments. When questioned, he said
that he is the usual driver of the car. In addition to the deponent,
the car was also driven by his wife Kate, his sister in law Sandy,
and a cousin of Kate’s by the name of Michael."

"When
asked if he has anything to add, he said that he has not seen any
proof that his daughter Madeleine is dead, and therefore he will
continue to search for her in the hope she is alive. He knows nothing
more than what has been said."

"On August 3, the couple drove from the fateful Algarve resort of Praia da Luz across the border
to the Spanish town of Huelva
to put up posters. With them were Gerry’s brother John and a cameraman hired to
take footage for the website findmadeleine. Once in Spain, the
couple were followed around by an army of media (...)"

The Sun, (CLODAGH HARTLEY in Praia da Luz and ANTONELLA
LAZZERI in Rothley)

Saturday, 19 May 2012

Mari Olli, a Norwegian and a retired social worker, 45 years old,
lives in Spain,
Málaga, with her husband. The couple has been on hollidays in Agadir, Morocco,
when Madeleine was abducted. They knew nothing about it, as they didn't watched
news, while on holidays. They were returning to Spain
and they stopped at Marrakesh,
for the night of May 8 to 9.

Early in the morning, they drove their car to Tarifa, to catch a
ferryboat back home. They stopped at a gas station to buy some water and that
was the place where Mrs Mari Olli says she saw Madeleine. This is the report
that she sent, by email, to British Police, after she tried, without success,
to give the information to Spanish Police (and not to Portuguese Police, as
someBritish newspaperswrongly
wrote):

“At the petrol station next to Hotel Ibis Palmeraie in Marrakesh (Address,
Avenue Abdelkrim Khattabi) Wednesday 9th of May, about 10 am, I saw the girl
inside the shop. She was wearing clear blue pyjamas. Some pattern on the top,
trousers little darker. Don’t think the trousers had any pattern. She was very
small. Under 1 meter. She was with a man.”

“She was standing alone, the man about a meter from her. I looked
back at her, she was very sweet. And it was a strange situation because the man
didn’t look like her father. And it’s very strange to see a blond small girl
standing alone in Marrakesh.
She was very small and normally you would hold her in your arms or at least her
hand. And he was turning away from her.”

“She looked sad. I looked at her face, she looked at me. Then she
turned to the man and said something that sounds like: “Can we see mommy soon?”
I am not sure if he reply. I turned around to pay my things, two bottle of water
and some hygiene serviettes. I went in our car, looked for if they had a car,
but could not see any special. I wanted to tell my husband, but he was busy
with the driving to catch the ferry from Tanger to Tarifa. I didn’t know about
the missing child at that time. Because I had not watched the news, when I was
on holiday.”

“I saw the news on Thursday the 10 of may, in the evening. Then I
remember what I saw in Marrakesh.
I started to phone the police, Spanish and English. The Spanish police didn’t
want to talk to me. I talked to the English (Police). Friday morning I gave my
report to Katy Peters from Scotland Yard. She said someone was going to phone
me. But I have not heard anything. I have emailed them and phone them several
times. But no response. I am very worried and very sure this was that girl. Her
face is very special. And that situation was very strange!”

“My mind is on this situation all the time, and I need to know if
someone is looking into my report. I am sure the two Moroccan men inside the
petrol station can confirm my seeing as well.”